IT'S A GIRL!

Just like we suspected, that little miracle in Lacy's belly is a girl. There will be no more referring to her as "the baby", "it", or "he/she". It is a "she", and "she" is "Addilyn Grace".

Thursday was the ultrasound and it was one of the best days we have ever had. It was filled with so many emotions and it is fun to look back on it. You can see some of the pictures below. When we first got to the doctor's office Lacy went straight to the restroom, big surprise there. Then we went into the ultrasound room, and the anticipation was almost overwhelming. Our ultrasound tech told us she was going to go through some other stuff, mostly measurements of different parts of the baby, before she was going to try and identify the sex of the baby. While she was going through all the measurements, which is fascinating in itself, she said, "Welp, I know what your having". I figured she must had seen something by the way she said it and because she wasn't looking for the sex at the time. So I figured something had to of  "jumped" out at her, so I said, "It must be a boy if you saw something you weren't looking for." She then looked at Lacy and kind of tilted her head and said, "Actually, your having a baby girl". It was like she said it in slow motion as we were hanging onto every syllable of what she was saying. Lacy then screamed, then almost cried, then screamed again. She finished going through all the measurements and pointing out different things to us. Addie was pretty shy after she showed us the goods, or lack there of, but it was fun to watch her wiggle around and fight with the umbilical cord on the 3-D part of the ultrasound. She weighed 9 ounces and her heart rate was 142 beats per minute. She is average right now for size, as she is in the 48th percentile based on the measurements of her torso. The doctor we saw awesome. He walked us through every photo from the ultrasound, and explained everything that they looked at and assured us that everything looked great.

After we left the ultrasound room Lacy went to the restroom again, for the 17th time that morning, and I just sat looking at the ultrasound pictures. Then I almost cried, it was starting to sink in, and I was so happy. I am ready to meet her, but we are only halfway there, ha. I hope the second half of the pregnancy goes as fast as the first half. What was really fun was knowing that the only people that knew the sex of our baby were us, the ultrasound tech, and God himself. We enjoyed dragging out the "news" to our families via pictures and text messages while waiting to see the doctor. We finally told them with a poem we made up off the top of our head, which took four text messages to send.

Roses are red...

Violets are blue..

We are proud to add...

A baby GIRL to our crew!

Another first we experienced is we can feel her moving around in there, especially around bedtime. Lacy had felt her a few times before I did, and I won't forget the first time we felt her together. It's crazy to think she only weighs 9 ounces, but she packs a punch already.

She's around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom and about 10 inches from head to heel — about the length of a banana. She's swallowing more these days, which is good practice for her digestive system. She's also producing meconium, a black, sticky by-product of digestion. This gooey substance will accumulate in her bowels, and we'll see it in her first soiled diaper.

Lacy is still "small", but you can tell she is pregnant now and not just chubby. She feels like she is getting ready to go through a growth spurt and last time she felt like that she was right. Something about a mother's intuition. She should gain about a pound a week from here on out.

Lacy sucking down some caffeine to ensure Addilyn was awake for the ultrasound.

I wouldn't have known she was a girl just by looking at this, but apparently her "private's" are somewhere in there.

Feet and toes.

Profile Pic.

There she is!

We also spent Sunday afternoon shopping for nursery furniture, and clothes, and toys, and everything else a baby girl will need. She is going to be spoiled for sure.